Slavery Abolition Act 1833

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was an act passed by the British Parliament that abolished slavery throughout the United Kingdom, assented to on 28 August 1833. The legislation followed Slave Trade Act 1807, which banned the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the act originally allowed for the British East India Company to resume the practice of slavery in its territories before these exceptions were eliminated in 1843.